[CALUG] F-12 observations w/ dialup/FF

[Brian Debelius]

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On 10/4/2010 1:47 AM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> DUDE! Modems are SOOOO 20th Century.
>
> Get yourself a Cable Modem, or FIOS, or something!
>
> And another G of memory (2G total) would also be nice.
>
> JIM
>
> P.S. Ask your ISP if they have a Web Cache Proxy you can use....that 
> might be faster.
>
> On 10/3/2010 3:49 PM, Walt Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to offer observations, and hope to
>> see if anyone may have seen or heard similar.
>>
>> I'm using F-12, FF 3.5.9, 2 different distro kernels and have used
>> F-10 thru 3 kernels, with the same peculiarities.
>> I know this is purely hum observable, so if you're into
>> instrumentation, you'll be disappointed.
>>
>> Same box for 2 cases with with 512 megs ram, DDR 2700. 2.6 ghz.
>>
>> case 1:
>> Using modem lights, with  web pages, they blink and sometimes
>> there's a bit of time when they don't blink; I'm talking maybe
>> 1/2 second - 1 second.  Using FF with multiple tabs.
>> This has been the case forever ( F9, F7 etc.. )
>>
>> case 2:
>> slashdot often, I mean 50% of the time,  times out and I
>> have to reload the web page.  I usually make sure other
>> web pages aren't loading.  This happened in F10, F12.
>>
>> CHANGE:  I upgrade box to 1 gig megs ram.
>> case 1:
>> web lights blink a lot less and are mostly continuously on.
>> When they blink, it is briefly at the same time rather than
>> separately.  My D/L's are marginally faster, it seems.
>>
>> case 2:
>> slashdot loads and doesn't give some kind of "connection timeout"
>> It properly completes.
>>
>> case 3:
>> ( only recently )
>> www.theregister.co.uk, on first try of the day, gets an "entrynotfound"
>> in the status bar, and the web page for teoma.com comes up, and
>> can't find the vulture !! dns is coretel.  It takes several tries
>> including perhaps closing the tab and retrying several times.  It takes
>> unknown tries ( 5-10?) but eventually works.  So far, other web pages
>> seem OK.
>>
>> I know X and FF can eat up space, but -- *really * ??????
>> I don't get much in the way of swap lights on HD if they're the
>> only 2 apps running ... I can kill FF, and restart with the same
>> effect.  I really don't want to believe I need so much memory
>> for mundance tasks.  OTOH, I suppose I could remove the DRR's and
>> use "free" to show I DO have free memory..  But I don't think
>> it would say much except memory is free...
>>
>>
>> speculation??
>>
>> thx,
>> Walt.............
>>
>>
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